Analysis of old Major’s speech in Animal Farm

Analysis:

first, in “I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living. It is about this that I wish to speak to
you. “, old Major uses ETHOS to convince the other animals around him to listen and believe him about what he is about to say(how the animals should rebel as the humans have treated them badly)

secondly, in “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps
for himself.” Major uses repetition in this case to show that there is no reason at all for animals to be ruled by men as they are way weaker than animals, he also supports this point in ” Our labor tills the soil, our dung fertilizes it, and yet
there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. “.

To be continued later…

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